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Food Miles-Agriculture

e2: Food miles 2022

https://elab.hpa.edu/apes/videos/e2/e2%20transport/3%20Food%20miles.mp4

  1. Look up Michael Pollan: what books has he written?
  2. What is the fossil fuel to food ratio he cites?
  3. Why is this so high?
  4. What did it used to be?
  5. What does he mean by “sustainable agriculture”?
  6. Why did WWII give us a new form of agriculture? 
  7. Look this up: in 1895, what portion of our workforce in our country was farmers? What is it today?
  8. Look up Lancaster PA, and who lives there?
  9. Why is this important to your understanding of this?
  10. Local farmers may not be able to sell to Foodland and other grocery stores because of guarantees of supply quantities (minimum amounts). Where can the farmers then sell their produce, and what does this imply?
  11. Foodland and KTA have different policies about this-explain.
  12. When you go into Foodland and see the sandwiches and other wrapped foods labeled in boxes marked KOA, where were these prepared? Why? 
  13. Why is this so environmentally nasty?
  14. Starbucks baked goods used to be baked here in Waimea (Mamane Bakery, behind the Montessori school). They are now baked on the mainland and shipped here frozen. Why does this make sense for Starbucks, and what impact does this have on you?
  15. McDonalds gets their food products from the mainland in huge truck and air shipments. Why do they do this?
  16. In the video, why is a restaurant that buys local food better than the examples above?
  17. Do you know of any restaurants here in Waimea that do this? 
  18. What about our cafeteria?
  19. Why would Amish farmers be more sustainable farmers than other modern farmers? 
  20. How many miles does the average food item travel in the video? Add 2500 miles for us, what is the new total?
  21. Why would they fly salmon to China and back?
  22. Local farmers can supply “food baskets” also known as a “CSA”. What are these and why are they more sustainable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture
  23. Is “eating local” always a good thing? What are these folks known as?
  24. What is the difference between a solar and a fossil fuel food supply?
  25. What percentage of our income do we spend on our food? Is this the same in Hawaii? In Waimea? Why?
  26. Where does most of the cost of food go?
  27. Why do you think folks do not cook the way Pollan suggests?
  28. Contrast the amount of each dollar going to a farmer in the past and now. How does localization change this?
  29. Ok, now think of your home. What could you do differently?

Bozeman Science: Video 16

http://www.bozemanscience.com/ap-es-016-agriculture

  1. What is the difference between malnutrition and undernutrition?
  2. What is overnutrition?
  3. How did the green revolution make the way for industrial ag?
  4. Why is industrial ag more efficient at first?
  5. What are the consequences of monocropping?
  6. How can these be prevented?
  7. Why is irrigation of crops not a long term solution?
  8. How is rain different from well water?
  9. Why are pesticides not a long term solution?
  10. How are inorganic fertilizers created?
  11. How does intercropping work?
  12. What is the connection between atrazine and bees?
  13. Why is this an issue?
  14. How is pesticide resistance like over prescription of antibiotics in humans?
  15. How does the Haber process work?

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